Spears v. Town of Mt. Ayr
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Ringgold Circuit Court. The plaintiff claims that, while passing along a sidewalk upon one of the streets of Mt. Ayr, she stepped upon a loose board in the walk and fell, and was thereby seriously and permanently injured.
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Appeal from Ringgold Circuit Court. The plaintiff claims that, while passing along a sidewalk upon one of the streets of Mt. Ayr, she stepped upon a loose board in the walk and fell, and was thereby seriously and permanently injured. She alleges that the sidewalk was “ not properly constructed, and had become dangerous to passers, and had remained so for a long time, and that said town had been duly notified, prior to said injury * * * that the defect in said sidewalk was in the construction; that the defect was covered by a broken board on said sidewalk.” She further claims that said injury…
1Opinion of the CourtBothrock, J.
1. practice : ne°wtriau by court: aeparties6.11 I. On the next day after the, verdict was returned the defendant filed a motion for a new trial, and alleged as grounds therefor that the verdict was excessive, and was contrary to the instructions given by the court to the jury. On the same day the following order was entered of record: “ And now, on this thirteenth day of April, 1883, it is ordered by the court that defendant has twenty days from the rising of court to prepare and file motion for a new trial, and plaintiff twenty days from the' time of defendant’s filing theirs to prepare and…
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